Friday, June 9, 2017

Bored programmers on Reddit are competing to design the shittiest volume slider

You never know what to expect from programmers once boredom starts to muddle with their otherwise highly rational brains. Last week, one bored coder took to Reddit to show off an dreadfully designed volume control implementation, ironically urging fellow members to one-up his effort and “make the best volume slider.” “Best” meaning “the worst” in this case, of course. Over the next days, hundreds of coders accepted the challenge and flocked to the popular Programmer Humor subreddit to square off in a heated contest to design the shittiest possible volume slider. Needless to say, the heaps of entries that followed did not disappoint. So without…